- 1945
The 14th century BC: a doctor’s life in Thebes and in Akhenaten’s new city of the sun.
- 1944
2000 BC: murders in a priest’s household on the west bank at Thebes.
- 1937
A rich bride is shot on a Nile steamer bound from Aswan, with Poirot aboard.
- 1929also Cairo
A blind boy in an Upper Egypt village, then a student at al-Azhar in Cairo.
- 1910also Cairo
1849–50: the young Flaubert up the Nile by boat, after the baths and dancers of Cairo.
- 1908also Cairo
Cairo, Luxor and Philae in 1907, as the first Aswan dam begins to drown the temple.
- 1858
A mummy found in a tomb at Thebes holds a papyrus, the story of her love for a pharaoh.